Month: September 2006

A couple of weeks ago, Boing Boing posted that if you type Confidential “do not distribute” into Google, you’ll get a lot of unprotected confidential documents in your results. Which was true. People are really just that dumb. Of course, now most of the top results are from weblogs re-posting this.

Of course, there are still plenty of result there that you and I are probably not supposed to see. And the same goes if you type in Proprietary “Do not distribute”.

If you want to keep something secret and yet you insist on putting in on your website, then at the very least, password protect it, okay?

From Hacking Netflix:

I paid $14.99 for a movie that is lower in quality than the DVD, lacks the special features, takes about an hour to download, and is basically unplayable on my television.

Yeah, that pretty much confirms my suspicions about the new iTunes movie download service. Despite all the hype about it, my initial reaction was meh. With that lack of quality and Apple’s restrictions, why bother?

Stephanie Zacharek:

In the past 10 years or so, I’ve had more casual conversations than I can count in which I’ve had to defend De Palma against charges of misogyny, or claims that he’s just a slick stylist who knows how to push buttons. De Palma does know how to push buttons, but I think what really enrages people is that he pushes buttons they didn’t know they had. He also trusts us, his audience, to do the work of thinking and feeling, and sometimes, through no fault of his own, we balk at the responsibility. In his greatest pictures…perhaps he’s asking us to relinquish some of our pride as moviegoers, as bright people hip to the trickery of the movie arts, in order to reinforce our dignity as human beings. No wonder so many people hate him.

I’ve actually liked the handful of other Brian De Palma movies I’ve seen (more or less), but this was just dreadful. My faith in the Onion AV Club is a little shaken by their A- review.